'Twas brillig, and Antoine Pitrou at 19/09/12 09:11 did gyre and gimble: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:40:27 +0200 > Anne Nicolas <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi there >> >> So here is the discussion about what isos we should keep or have for >> final release. We had several (many!) proposals on that topics and we >> need to take some decisions. >> >> Here are some prerequisites I can see for what I can read in comments >> and review about Mageia on the web. >> >> - provide a full open source software version > > Is that necessary? Instead you could have a checkbox "install > optional proprietary software" in the installer.
I would personally prefer this too. That said, having a separate repository on the media itself is almost the same as having two iso's with different package selections (where one is a subset of the other), so in terms of QA, it's about the same (less downloading but the same number of installs). Still probably a net positive tho'. >> - provide CD iso(s) so that it can be quick to download (people having >> low band-width or paying depending how much they use it) >> - provide live version(s) > > IMHO you could simply go for CD == live (and installable). Perhaps, but the "live version(s)" did not necessarily specify a CD... it could well have been a Live DVD. So I guess that's a question to answer, should the live media be CD sized? (and I don't want to suggest for a second that it would be worth providing both!) Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
